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I’m here for the same reasons as anyone else
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someone got brushed and it clearly took a lot out of him
April 16, 2025 at 4:46 PM
someone got brushed and it clearly took a lot out of him
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The vet said 〝He's not overweight at all, but he has a round and big head.‘’
April 17, 2025 at 1:05 PM
The vet said 〝He's not overweight at all, but he has a round and big head.‘’
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Remember when the rule of law applied the same to everyone in America, whether you were President of the United States or an undocumented immigrant?
Now it doesn't seem to apply to either.
Now it doesn't seem to apply to either.
April 17, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Remember when the rule of law applied the same to everyone in America, whether you were President of the United States or an undocumented immigrant?
Now it doesn't seem to apply to either.
Now it doesn't seem to apply to either.
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"It is so important because it is “a choke point for all agencies,” said Steven Schooner, a George Washington University law...professor who specializes in government contracting. “They can, in effect, stop all civilian agencies from purchasing, period. That’s everything.”
apnews.com/article/doge...
apnews.com/article/doge...
Why Elon Musk installed his top lieutenants at a federal agency you probably haven't heard of
The General Services Administration has a key role in the Trump administration’s quest to slash costs and bring the federal government to heel.
apnews.com
April 17, 2025 at 11:12 AM
"It is so important because it is “a choke point for all agencies,” said Steven Schooner, a George Washington University law...professor who specializes in government contracting. “They can, in effect, stop all civilian agencies from purchasing, period. That’s everything.”
apnews.com/article/doge...
apnews.com/article/doge...
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Today on "Uncanny Valley," we tell you how you can best protect yourself from surveillance technology at protests. www.wired.com/story/uncann...
How Americans Are Surveilled During Protests
Today on "Uncanny Valley," we tell you how you can best protect yourself from surveillance technology at protests.
www.wired.com
April 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Today on "Uncanny Valley," we tell you how you can best protect yourself from surveillance technology at protests. www.wired.com/story/uncann...
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This is the education plank of the plot to enslave America: secular private academies for the rich, religious instruction for the middle class, and a prison-like rump of public schools for the poor. With our Constitution in tatters, they're racing to implement it
The Texas House early on Thursday approved a far-reaching school voucher program, agreeing to send $1 billion of taxpayer dollars to families for private and often religious education. trib.al/MKJ8Kyg
April 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
This is the education plank of the plot to enslave America: secular private academies for the rich, religious instruction for the middle class, and a prison-like rump of public schools for the poor. With our Constitution in tatters, they're racing to implement it
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Breaking News: Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled.
Google Is a Monopolist in Online Advertising Tech, Judge Says
The ruling was the second time in a year that a federal court had found that Google had acted illegally to maintain its dominance.
www.nytimes.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Breaking News: Google acted illegally to maintain a monopoly in some online advertising technology, a federal judge ruled.
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looking at me like i'm an idiot
(i am)
(i am)
April 17, 2025 at 3:56 PM
looking at me like i'm an idiot
(i am)
(i am)
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Google just lost the big adtech monopoly case -- safe to say the entire web economy changes after this. And probably Google, forever. www.theverge.com/news/650665/...
Google loses adtech monopoly case
A loss for Google.
www.theverge.com
April 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Google just lost the big adtech monopoly case -- safe to say the entire web economy changes after this. And probably Google, forever. www.theverge.com/news/650665/...
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Millions of scam text messages are sent every month. The Chinese cybercriminals behind many of them are expanding their operations—and quickly innovating. www.wired.com/story/smishi...
Smishing Triad: The Scam Group Stealing the World’s Riches
Millions of scam text messages are sent every month. The Chinese cybercriminals behind many of them are expanding their operations—and quickly innovating.
www.wired.com
April 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Millions of scam text messages are sent every month. The Chinese cybercriminals behind many of them are expanding their operations—and quickly innovating. www.wired.com/story/smishi...
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The thing is that China doesn’t need the US or Apple in order to make and sell ‘iPhones’ as I am sure we are about to discover.
US tech hegemony depended on consumers having fuzzy feelings about the US.
US tech hegemony depended on consumers having fuzzy feelings about the US.
April 13, 2025 at 8:01 PM
The thing is that China doesn’t need the US or Apple in order to make and sell ‘iPhones’ as I am sure we are about to discover.
US tech hegemony depended on consumers having fuzzy feelings about the US.
US tech hegemony depended on consumers having fuzzy feelings about the US.
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That it honestly seems like the media environment is only getting worse is making me feel glum and vaguely doomerish
The utter collapse of the national information environment and the state of our media elites just is just so bleak
April 14, 2025 at 2:56 AM
That it honestly seems like the media environment is only getting worse is making me feel glum and vaguely doomerish
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When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.
April 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
When I say you don’t have to worry about microplastics in your brain I mean that there is much stronger evidence that you should be worrying about other things that you don’t ever think about, like the draining of peatlands for agriculture, and things that you think about all the time, like fascism.
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Ever wonder what was inside your $5,500 microcomputer? ANTIC Magazine has the skinny
April 14, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Ever wonder what was inside your $5,500 microcomputer? ANTIC Magazine has the skinny
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Barnes & Noble in Georgetown with a stark “Bohemian Rhapsody”-referencing book display this weekend.
April 13, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Barnes & Noble in Georgetown with a stark “Bohemian Rhapsody”-referencing book display this weekend.
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Hackers come in all shapes and sizes, from crypto kingpins to scammers to spies.
These stories shine a spotlight on the hacking groups you don’t hear about as often—because they’re often the ones you need to worry about the most.
WIRED’s latest digital issue: wrd.cm/4jbFwki
These stories shine a spotlight on the hacking groups you don’t hear about as often—because they’re often the ones you need to worry about the most.
WIRED’s latest digital issue: wrd.cm/4jbFwki
April 14, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Hackers come in all shapes and sizes, from crypto kingpins to scammers to spies.
These stories shine a spotlight on the hacking groups you don’t hear about as often—because they’re often the ones you need to worry about the most.
WIRED’s latest digital issue: wrd.cm/4jbFwki
These stories shine a spotlight on the hacking groups you don’t hear about as often—because they’re often the ones you need to worry about the most.
WIRED’s latest digital issue: wrd.cm/4jbFwki
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“Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up & chase them.”
Today I will catch the red dot! 🔴
Today I will catch the red dot! 🔴
April 14, 2025 at 11:10 AM
“Every morning you have two choices: continue to sleep with your dreams or wake up & chase them.”
Today I will catch the red dot! 🔴
Today I will catch the red dot! 🔴
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The divergence here from two companies with *very* similar customer bases is pretty wild, you do not see this sort of thing happen at scale very often.
Target suffers 10th consecutive week of foot traffic declines, sinking stock prices since caving on DEI
Costco, which resisted pressure to ditch DEI, extends foot-traffic gains streak to 15.
www.retailbrew.com
April 14, 2025 at 2:44 AM
The divergence here from two companies with *very* similar customer bases is pretty wild, you do not see this sort of thing happen at scale very often.
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Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely.
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
Bukele, Abrego Garcia, and Red Lines
Emergency Triad: Are we now a country of political prisoners and gulags?
www.thebulwark.com
April 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Basically: I don’t think people understand that 36 hours from now it’s possible that America will have a formalized system for abducting enemies of the regime and stashing them in foreign gulags, indefinitely.
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
www.thebulwark.com/p/bukele-abr...
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Monday's sunrise blossoms with pink light. This morning in Chicago.
April 14, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Monday's sunrise blossoms with pink light. This morning in Chicago.
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Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.
April 14, 2025 at 2:24 AM
Calm down, folks, it was just an attempted assassination of a Jewish Democratic governor and his family on the first night of Passover, it’s not like somebody spray painted a dick on a Cybertruck.
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"Happy puppy has thousands of playable demos, not to mention reviews, previews, and cheats - perfectly suited for your average samurai." (Source.)
![Up top, a two page comic. A samurai in plaid looks at his CRT, showing he has fired a rocket in a Quake-like FPS killing his foe, and says: "[HP] takagawa: GG". His foe in the next panel grey floral looks at his CRT, showing he has been exploded, and types: "[HP] hero-hito: FT! you have so dishonored me." Down below, the text reads: "Concentrate. Channel. Frag. Chill out. Happy puppy has thousands of playable demos, not to mention reviews, previews, and cheats--perfectly suited for your average samurai. (Other people like Happy Puppy too.) In the bottom right, the logo of Happy Puppy - indeed, a happy puppy, with red eyes, a smug grin, floppy ear, and a patch over one eye - is surrounded by the url happypuppy.com and the slogan, "it's all games". Far bottom right, the URL games.theglobe.com appears.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:y3bat4xb5srtsrknt7twpvy5/bafkreihpipmmmnzxfh327xelczliqvybos7wyfqghuiyqzg4uikhatqkxm@jpeg)
April 13, 2025 at 6:05 PM
"Happy puppy has thousands of playable demos, not to mention reviews, previews, and cheats - perfectly suited for your average samurai." (Source.)
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yeah the issue with M4A is not that single payer isn’t a superior system (it is), it’s that the underlying issues with American healthcare still require mostly supply side fixes and the rationing that occurs at the insurance level is downstream of that
Medicare for All would inherit many of the existing problems in the American healthcare system and everyone would blame every random healthcare issue they have on M4A for a long time.
April 13, 2025 at 11:18 PM
yeah the issue with M4A is not that single payer isn’t a superior system (it is), it’s that the underlying issues with American healthcare still require mostly supply side fixes and the rationing that occurs at the insurance level is downstream of that